[Google Shopping API] Searches with `near me` are often timing out

[marm123]

One of our users reported that searches are often timing out if the near me is included in the search query. While this can be avoided by excluding the near me part, and providing a proper location, there is a certain feature introduced by Google that shows the results for the near me searches, and it's not easily reproducible without that part.

On top of that, pretty much all searches are timing out if no location is provided, but some API calls with the location are also timing out. I'm not sure if this is because the feature is not implemented for that location, but in this case, we should probably return an empty successful search rather than an errored one.

Successful	Successful	Errored	Errored
Playground	Playground	Playground	Playground
Inspect	Inspect	Inspect	Inspect

Intercom

[aciddjus]

We have fixed this issue. We will now return an empty results error message instead of timing out.

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